Limit the access to the project so only people assigned to the project can see edit it and its tasks

[Carlota Vendrell]

Hi, 

In my company there are a lot of projects. Now, everyone see all the projects but we want to change it. We want that a person only see the projects of her/him department. So the idea is restring the project's access taking into account the groups of people (departments). Department1 will only see its projects and Department2 will only see its projects too. 

Hos can I manage it?

[Joe Pitt]

JIRA works by GRANTING access. You can't restrict access. By default, it grants access to the group used to logon (used to be JIRA-users but may be different on your version).  This is probably where they’re getting the access from.

1. The FIRST thing you need to do to get control is to remove any groups with logon privileges from the permission scheme unless you absolutely want everyone to have that permission.
2. Then I suggest you setup Project Roles for the various functions like, tester, QA, Browse Only, etc.
3. One permission scheme will cover almost all projects. The project admin controls project role membership

This may be a big effort, but it will payoff down the road by making it easy to control access.

 Most of the 'old timers' use project roles. It meets the best practice for security and gives complete control to the project lead for access to their project. JIRA comes with many project roles, but you can add more if you have a special need.